Hi, while debugging the last issues for iso for alpha 1, Anne reminded us that some people asked in the past for appliance ( ie, virtual machine ) to be distributed along the isos on mirrors.
While we will likely not do for the next release ( due tomorrow ), I would like to have some feedback about it ( as i seldom use such features, I prefer to install my vm myself ). There is some question to answer : - what technology would people like to see ? ( remember, this has to be something that can be created using free softwares in the distribution ) - what type of hardware should be emulated ( i586/x86_64, sound card, etc ? ) - what should be distributed along the disk image ? - what kind of installation ? Ie, a default user with a default documented password, but for issue such as language, size of the disk, partitionning, set of installation package, this is more tricky. Who would be interested by this feature ? Some has example of company/group doing the same that he could comment ( I found several people doing the same, but no time to look at details ) ? -- Michael Scherer
